Sheer tunic with floral border and fringe, worn with leggings and granny boots.
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"Tradition is always malleable”
Traditional Irish songs often revolve around a few well-explored themes: family, drinking, love (lost and found, and of drinking), war and immigration. All of these can be found on Shadow and Light, the sophomore solo album by guitarist/producer John Doyle. But here's where Doyle's album parts with tradition: Instead of recording a collection of jigs, […]
Pink, purple, red
Three pairs of ankle boots on three Black Friday shoppers. Seen on Lexington Ave.
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Party style
Behind the scenes and extra photos from this week’s holiday party fashion shoot. All photos by Bill Rhodes.
Autumn palette
Local designer Rachel Stack, on Walnut Street.
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The Thomas Wolfe 8K wrap up
This year, the five-mile race, which takes its name from Asheville’s most famous writer, raised about $3,300 for charity. Xpress has the breakdown.
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Après-Thanksgiving Updated
Things to do after the feast. With or without visiting family. With or without a four-day weekend.
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Full speed ahead: a review of Dashing Through the Snow
This year’s holiday offering (by playwright trio Jones Hope Wooten) opens on the lobby of the Snowflake Inn in Tinsel, Texas where it’s Christmas 365 days a year. (The premise is that year-round Christmas is a good thing, FYI.) The show runs at ACT through Sunday, Dec. 4.
Scarf + skirt
A bright green floral-print scarf paired with an olive-green pocket skirt.
Dueling Nutcrackers
It wouldn’t be Christmas without The Nutcracker. Four companies (three of them local) put on a total of 12 performances of the ballet beginning December 2.
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Smart Bets web extra: Asheville Symphony performs Mahler
The Masterworks concert takes place at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 19.
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So, you know about the Mountain Xpress 2011 Best of WNC Bash, right?
It’s Friday, December 2, 8 p.m. at the Orange Peel. And you’re invited.
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Smart Bets web extra: Trashion show
The recycled apparel runway show takes place on Saturday, Nov. 19.
Rich, warm and wintery
A royal blue scarf, a Kelly green coat and chestnut-colored leather. Seen on Walnut Street.
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Urban Primitive trunk show on Friday
Local designers Kathy Van Kleeck and Cara May showcase their jewelry and knitwear at Moda, Nov. 18 from 3-8 p.m.
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Smart Bets web extra: Grammer School, A Ghost Like Me and Graviton Project
Three bands (and a live painter) for three bucks this Thursday.
Pretty in Puce
OK, so there wasn’t a lot of puce worn at Asheville Prom last weekend, but we did see lime green, lavender, royal blue, ‘80s retro, vintage, floral, faux fur, suspenders and fedoras. Andie Walsh would approve. Photos by Bill Rhodes.
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Smart bet web extra: The Billy Sea
The local global Americana band performs at Altamont Theatre on Friday, Nov. 18
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Smart Bet web extra: Turkuaz
Two Brooklyn-based funk/Afrobeat bands take over the One Stop stage tomorrow night.
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Doin’ it for themselves
"You've got to be born to do this," says Mary Frances, keyboardist for Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty band. She's talking about a number of things — being on stage, being on the road and being the lone woman in a six-piece funk outfit. "You've got to love the journey," she says. Frances joined the […]
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To her own beat
Swedish-born singer/songwriter Lykke Li is well traveled (she's lived in Portugal, Morocco, Nepal, India and Bushwick, Brooklyn), a fact that seems to have left her not just worldly but wary. "Growing up, I was really shy and I never found my place," she tells Xpress. "I was always quite strange." It was on stage that […]